About this role

Industrial Performance Manager

Job Description

The role of Industrial Performance Manager is to support the business and plants, drive performance improvement through performance analysis, proposing and challenging industrial targets and monitoring the implementation of action plans, while supporting plant Managers with the implementation of industrial framework and other initiatives.
The primary focus of the job holder is the performance improvement of plants across the country.

What you'll be doing

Health & Safety and Environment:

Be H&S compliant; act as a role model in plants, be safety conscious and proactive contributing to shaping a group safety culture. Actively participate in training and engage people in safety discussions.
Ensure that health and safety directives and policies are taken into consideration and respected during the implementation of Global Initiatives and carry out safety observations, risk assessments, and audits.
Create safe work conditions and mobilize all plant employees and on-site contractors on safety at work (behaviors and skills).
Strictly apply Group Security rules and proactively report any observations and/or incidents.

Strategic / Performance Management:

Strategy and Policy Development: develop and implement departmental plans and performance management.
Set up the overall strategic goals, objectives, budget, and oversee the execution of business processes within the department (Industrial)
Manage the day-to-day strategic guidance, direction and leadership of staff while ensuring legal, regulatory and statutory requirements are adhered to.
Conduct all necessary assessments and benchmarks within the framework of Huaxin
Formulate the vision and set the priorities for the four Nigerian plants with the Industrial Head.

Performance Management:

Define the Plant Performance Improvement Plan (PDP, MTP) alongside with the Plant Managers and ensure is validated by the COO.
Manage own time and resources, structure and execute assignments in due time, as well as in good quality; understand and anticipate business needs ensuring effectiveness and the bottom- line impact of proposed solutions;
Deploy and provide expertise in the areas of performance analysis, identification of opportunities, target setting, definition of action plans and implementation of Global initiatives in the plants.

Performance Analysis and Industrial Target Setting:

Identify performance opportunities in collaboration with the Local (Nigeria) Manufacturing support team;
Monitor and challenge plants' performance along the business cycle from the target definition to the monitoring of rolling forecasts;
In collaboration with the business aspiration and Strategy group, define and cascade targets to plants; discuss targets with the plants to agree on them.
Ensure that the group targets are properly reflected in the plants' mid-term development plans, considering performance and sustainability.

Action Planning and Support to Execution:

Participate in the validation of the operational and capital investments budget, as well as the mid and long term plans of the plants;
Support and challenge plants in the definition of robust action plans that will ensure targets are met (adequacy of actions and resources);
Support plants with the implementation of their actions, acting as advisors and seeking for external support if required.
Track advancement of action plans and effective delivery of expected results from actions.

Global Initiatives Management:

Inform corporate regarding opportunities for performance improvement missions in terms of topic (e.g. energy) or pilot plant;
Identify, promote, and country initiatives in accordance with Global initiatives;
Support the Global Initiative group to implement actions in the plants, take ownership of the project, ensure local commitments, follow-up and reporting;
Cooperate with experts to provide the required know-how to support roll out.

Implementation of Process Tools and Systems:

Industrial Performance Manager